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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 1998
Filed:
Feb. 27, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B62M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
180206 ; 180220 ;
Abstract
An electrically powered bicycle that is driven by a main driving force generated by pedaling and an auxiliary driving force, including: a motor for generating the auxiliary driving force, a battery for supplying electric power to the motor, an acceleration sensor for detecting running acceleration of the electrically powered bicycle, and control device for controlling the electric power to be supplied to the motor so that the motor outputs the auxiliary driving force in accordance with the running acceleration thus detected.